Lipscomb Academy middle school students had the opportunity to hear HK Derryberry and Jim Bradford speak in chapel last week. HK, a very special young man, was born three months premature due to an automobile accident that took his mother’s life. Because of the accident and his premature birth, he was born blind, with cerebral palsy and countless other medical problems. Since age 10, HK had displayed signs of a remarkable ability to recall dates and other facts surrounding events in his life. In 2012, the mystery of his memory was unlocked by medical researchers at Vanderbilt Medical Center’s Memory Clinic. They discovered that HK is one of only five or six people in the world with a medical diagnosis of hyperthymesia, otherwise known as Superior Autobiographical Memory. He has the ability to remember every event including time and place that’s occurred to him since he was 3½ years old. HK “sees” every day as a new opportunity to touch someone’s life and spoke to our middle school students as part of chapel last week.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:25:56 +0000
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